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Cpt Tuttle

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  1. OK, this picture is stolen from the internet since I forgot to take a picture of the box, but yeah, I found an Iveco like this cheap, and I fell in love with it immediately for some reason. So, the first step was to glue the multi piece frame together and give it some 80s chocolate-milk-brown-ness.....
  2. Found some cheap Cragars so I had to buy them, two 14x7" and two 14x10"..... If I have any use for them? No!
  3. They are coming
  4. The 2CV has an aircooled flat twin. Nothing wrong with that, but a bit weak. To keep the concept but increase the power my first thought was a VW engine. But swapping one weak powerplant to another was maybe not so interesting.... But....probably silly yuppies will be the first one to go when s**t hits the fan, so there will be cars to loot for the engine, so Porsche engine it is, and still keeping the front wheel drive. Wicked enough?
  5. Thanks, I am really becoming enthusiastic about this kind of builds now so it won't be the last.......
  6. Body, after paint and some armour...... The Heller Ferguson tractor had a double set of seats, so it donated one of them to this build. Wheels.... Widened 1937 Chevy steelies with Lindberg F150 tyres.
  7. I sectioned the chassis to be able to drop the body down, built straight from the box it looks like a 4x4......
  8. No, I am just Swedish... ?
  9. Looks like it's designed for a horror movie, the front end looks like it will eat small children for breakfast. ?
  10. The awful Monogram kit was not really a dream to build, and the Radwood buildoff never really took off, but at least my Esprit is finished now and maybe that's what counts.
  11. Two axle trailer tractors aren't very well suited for the slippery scandinavian winter roads, yet it's what most eastern europeans drive up here, not very seldom with bald tyres either..... That's the reason for the ukraine plates, I would have liked to put Swedish plates on it but almost everybody is running with three axles here.....
  12. I have always liked this generation N-series trucks, they were made at a time where cabovers were taking over in Europe and were never as common as the F-series of the same vintage, but I remember seeing most of them as gravel trucks. Your build is very nicely done.
  13. Looks exactly like what's standing on many backyards here countryside, except that it is mostly similar vintage Volvos and Scanias in my case. I guess it's not much different in the states...
  14. I'm tired of having it in the bookshelf, PM me your adress and I will try to solve it.
  15. Ooops, I guess you need the floorpan then that I haven't sent you yet after....five years. ?
  16. Seems like this one died, but I'm continuing now on my Esprit. Painted Tamiya TS97, black and yellow interior, wheels are Speedlines from Hasegawas XJS, narrowed up front, painted black with yellow anodized nuts...
  17. Thank you for the kind words.
  18. Not without its flaws, not the easiest kit to put together, but now when I have trained on one, the next one will probably be better.
  19. Nice and sharp rebuild, the purple metalflake looks stunning.
  20. Didn't like this kit at all TBH, boring snap kit with lots of screws, reminds me of a rebodied diecast, also the plastic was very fragile, in fact, if I knew how fragile it was I would never have started the targa conversion. But now it is finished at least.
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